PM strong on rhetoric, vague on substance

Published:03:56Thursday 11 May 2017

I was not surprised that Sir Peter Bottomley has not said anything controversial following the calling of an unnecessary general election by a Eurosceptic, Brexit-obsessed administration which places ideological party dogma above the wider domestic needs of the country.

When Home Secretary she was responsible for the ‘go home’ vans and wants the UK to leave the Convention of Human Rights – thus revealing her true authoritarian leadership intentions, none of which ultimately strengthens our forthcoming difficult EU negotiations.

Since her first PM address, she has failed to tackle the ‘burning injustices’ she promised to address affecting ordinary working families. Instead she has cut welfare and tax credits to those on low incomes.

Based purely on her own experiences, PM May wants to expand selective grammar schools, despite her current and previous Education Ministers’ lack of support in the face of vast empirical research proving this be to both harmful and divisive in terms of social mobility.

At the same time, there is continued under-funding of West Sussex state schools.

Conservative electioneering (to date) remains stage-managed, surrounded solely by faithful activists with no members of the public or probing questions from journalists allowed.

Perhaps this is why she will not be taking any part in any televised debates.

With Chris Nuttall as UKIP leader, let us hope we now see their demise, having succeeded in their xenophobic short-sighted aim for blaming Europe for all our domestic woes, wanting to drag Britain back to a ‘nostalgic’ past that never really existed.

So, whatever your political persuasions please register to vote by May 22 via the link www.gov.uk/register-to-vote so you can participate in the forthcoming general election on June 8, because if you care about your future – vote for it!

Samuel Baeza

Melrose Avenue

Worthing

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